Ezekiel 1:4 (NIV)"I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal"

Is he describing a space craft?

Ezekiel 1:5 (NIV)

"and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man"

This doesn't mean they were living creatures, he is simply describing what he is seeing. He is saying that the UFO looked like four living creatures. It gave him that appearance.

Ezekiel 1:6 (NIV)

"but each of them had four faces and four wings"

He is describing the UFO.

Ezekiel 1:7 (NIV)

"Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze."

Continues the description, this is when I suspect the UFO was landing.

Ezekiel 1:8 (NIV)

"Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings,"

Robotic arms?

Ezekiel 1:9 (NIV)

"and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved."

Ahh hard to understand what he is describing now.

Ezekiel 1:10 (NIV)

"Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle."

Ezekiel 1:11 (NIV)

"Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body."

Ezekiel 1:12 (NIV)

"Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went."

Ezekiel 1:13 (NIV)

"The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it."

Ezekiel 1:14 (NIV)"The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning."

Ezekiel 1:15 (NIV)

"As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces."

There it goes, the wheels are out. What they had definition of, they tried to define, what they didn't, they simply described with their mentality of that age.

Ezekiel 1:16-21 (NIV)

"This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels."

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Quoting: oozyism

IMO, Ezekiel is describing not exactly a spaceship, but some sort of atmospheric compact flight device. Something like these ones:

The four faces are four crafts and God was in the fifth craft. Those four faces are not creatures or anything like that.They are the "icons", banners, just like all nations still have today. And you can see that those faces are the flags of Israel from some of the 12 tribes. Read book of numbers and see the real truth of those faces.

And yes the manuscripts does say "highly polished bronze" craft.

If you read the whole chapter of Eze. you will see starting in with 1:24 to the last verse 28 is the image of the Real God the creator. Many guess in what God looks like, and it is there in Eze. and several other places in the bible with more descriptions of what God really looks like. Many people believe God is some ball of fire because of what they read in the book of Heb. about God being a consuming fire, which is nothing but a metaphor or a Hebraism expressing Gods power.